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20080119
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- "A
New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories."
... "Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest
slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States
are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new
factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their owners
unable to afford the raw material." ... "This is the other oil shock. From
India to Indiana, shortages and soaring prices for palm oil, soybean oil
and many other types of vegetable oils are the latest, most striking example
of a developing global problem: costly food." ... "The food price index
of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, based on
export prices for 60 internationally traded foodstuffs, climbed 37 percent
last year. That was on top of a 14 percent increase in 2006, and the trend
has accelerated this winter." ... "In some poor countries, desperation
is taking hold. Just in the last week, protests have erupted in Pakistan
over wheat shortages, and in Indonesia over soybean shortages. Egypt has
banned rice exports to keep food at home, and China has put price controls
on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs." ... "According to the F.A.O.,
food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico,
Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen." ... "A startling change is unfolding
in the world’s food markets. Soaring fuel prices have altered the equation
for growing food and transporting it across the globe. Huge demand for
biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using
it for food." ... "Cooking oil may seem a trifling expense in the West.
But in the developing world, cooking oil is an important source of calories
and represents one of the biggest cash outlays for poor families, which
grow much of their own food but have to buy oil in which to cook it." (1,
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-By Keith Bradsher with contributions by Andrew Martin,
Anand Giridharadas, and Michael Rubenstein
-NYTimes
20070809
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-  Military
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-  Terrorism
-  Politics
- "14
detainees upheld as `enemy combatants'." ... "As
a first step to possible military trial, the Pentagon said Thursday that
review panels have upheld President Bush's designation of ''enemy combatant''
for 14 so-called ''high value detainees'' at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,
who were held and interrogated for years at CIA black sites." ... "They
include Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the reputed 9/11 mastermind who, according
to a censored Pentagon transcript of his secret hearing in March, confessed
to a broad list of global terror plots -- most unrealized." ... "They also
include men who allegedly planned the Oct. 12, 2000, suicide bombing of
the USS Cole off Aden, Yemen, and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania." ... "The Pentagon's statement Thursday made no mention
of an ongoing controversy over whether the hearings should have been determining
whether Guantánamo captives are ''unlawful enemy combatants'' versus
run-of-the-mill ``enemy combatants.''" -By Carol Rosenberg-Miami/Herald
20031129
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- "USS
Cole Heads Out for Overseas Deployment: USS Cole
Heads Out for First Overseas Deployment Since 2000 Terrorist Bombing in
Yemen Port." ... "The USS Cole and its crew of 340 pulled out of port Saturday
for the destroyer's first overseas deployment since it was bombed by terrorists
three years ago in Yemen's port of Aden." ... "A crowd of about 100 family
members watched as the ship left the Naval Station Norfolk [Virgina] at
12:55 p.m." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
20031117
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- "Yemeni
court frees 92 militants: A court in Yemen
has freed 92 Muslim militants, including some suspected of having links
with al-Qaeda." ... "Yemeni judge Hammoud al-Hatar told the court the prisoners
had repented and promised not to attack embassies in the capital, Sanaa."
... "Mr al-Hatar said the president had decided to release them "in light
of the results of a dialogue through the committee of ulemas, [Islamic
scholars]"." ... "A further 54 al-Qaeda suspects who surrendered to the
authorities have been pardoned by the president, the agency said."
-BBC/News
20021212
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- "U.S.
Lets Missile Shipment Proceed." ... "Skirting a face-off
with Yemen, the United States on Wednesday let an intercepted shipment
of North Korean missiles proceed to the Persian Gulf country after receiving
assurances the Scuds would not be transferred elsewhere in the tense region."
... "The agreement was reached through unusual high-level diplomacy involving
Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell, on the
one hand, and President Ali Abdallah Salih of Yemen on the other." -By
Barry Schweid -AP
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- "U.S.
Turns Horn of Africa Into a Military Hub." ... "For
the first time since American troops withdrew from Somalia after a bloody
firefight in the streets of Mogadishu, the United States military is rebuilding
its combat power in the Horn of Africa." ... "The main goal this time is
to put American forces in position to strike cells of Al Qaeda in Yemen
or East Africa. But the Pentagon has also begun to use Djibouti to train
its forces in desert warfare — skills that could be applied in Washington's
campaign against terrorist groups or on the battlefields of Iraq." ...
"France, which had colonized Djibouti (pronounced ji-BOOT-e) before it
became independent in 1977, still maintains a force of 2,800 strong here.
Djibouti, in fact, is France's largest foreign military base." ... "The
Central Intelligence Agency is flying classified missions from an airfield
in Djibouti using the Predator, an pilotless drone equipped with Hellfire
missiles, according to Western officers." (1, 2,
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-By Michael R. Gordon
-NYTimes via
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- "White
House Denies Assertions on Preoccupation With Iraq."
... "The White House disagreed sharply today with assertions by senior
Democratic senators that the campaign against terrorism is lagging and
that a preoccupation with Iraq is one of the reasons." ... ""We have locked
up or detained or eliminated important Al Qaeda leaders," Condoleezza Rice,
President Bush's national security adviser, said at a news briefing." ...
""We have eliminated their base in Afghanistan, so they cannot operate
in the way that they have in the past. We have strengthened the resolve
and the capacity of countries like Yemen and the Philippines and countries
in Africa to deal with this threat. A lot has been done."" ... "Dr. Rice
noted that Mr. Bush has said repeatedly that the campaign will be a long
one. "It took a while for them to lodge themselves in 60 countries around
the world, including the United States," she said. "It's going to take
a while to break them up."" (1, 2)
-NYTimes via -Google-News
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